I Like Spending Time With The Schmuz

seems that today’s post is all about her

    

Recently Kim Archer had a design team call
I was thrilled to be picked in the Top 15 to go through to the second round
The second round contained three challenges
2 of which were to take 2 of Kim’s classes and put your own ‘twist’ to each
What I love about Kim’s work is that it always looks AMAZING
I haven’t taken an online class before, always had a daunting feeling about doing so.
Her classes are easy to follow, have great step by step photos, amazing gallery and you know that the end result will be a wonderful creation
The first class was a layout, here is my interpretation

and some close ups :)

and the journaling :)

I also used a step by step class to make this mini and a pocket to store it in :)

My third creation, for the challenges, will be part of the upcoming Mother’s Day Workshop that Kim will be running soon.
The new members of Kim’s Design Team were announced yesterday and, although I wasn’t one of them, I am thrilled by the creative people she chose. Do yourself a favour, head over to Kim’s blog or site and see what classes she has to offer or just check out her design team, AMAZING :)

Today I organised my ever growing bakers twine
I LOVE IT, seriously!!
Quite some time ago I bought my first lot and they arrived on some cotton reels
But since then each one has arrived just coiled or sometimes wrapped on a piece of card
I find this to be annoying because it usually doesn’t unravel properly and ends up knotty
So today I put an end to my knotty lumps of twine
I wound them onto some wooden clothes pegs
Much easier to find the end
Much easier to unravel
and I think it looks much MUCH better :)

So there this post wasn’t totally about Lucy
But will leave you with another photo of her blue tongue
She had a left over lollipop from the party bag she got 2 weekends ago :)

Wonder where she gets her attitude from…

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They Float My Boat

 

YEP!!!!
Something a little different for me
Looking forward to the challenge that the Digital medium will bring
Looking forward to putting my hand to some hybrid pages
Looking forward to the adventure :)
Go check out the announcement and the other amazing people who were selected
HONOURED!!
and
Petrified
But it’s all good lol

Our weekend…
Saturday…
Helped out at my sister’s garage sale
Dave’s soccer team won their grand final
Had my pal Bron (with her hubby and new bub) over for dinner, they fly back to the UK this week :(

Sunday…
Church in the morning
And then
We took the girls to the Model Makers and Collectors Exhibition
Where we had fun checking out all of this:
The trains, of course,

This man reminded me of Wilson from Home Improvements :)

 

A Fair for Bears

The very cool boats

Some of this


and all of us, except Lucy, thought he was pretty cool too :)

This month Jodi, from QTea is sponsoring a challenge over at Scrap Lounge
She sent each of the QTea DT girls the kit so we could also play along, very cool :) :)
This is what I made

and some of the internal pages :)

 

Took me quite a while to get it made so I am glad it’s now finished and really happy with how it turned out :)
You can read more about the challenge and the kit here

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Today I Want To Blow Bubbles

She requested
So
She
Did
Just
That
:)

And we all know that pink sunglasses makes bubble blowing so much sweeter, right?
Well that's what I was lead to believe lol
And I think it might be right, what do you think??!!

She tried REALLY hard to blow bubbles onto the camera, and succeeded a few times too,

cheeky blighter :)

and while she amused herself with bubbles I sat in the sunshine, watching her and

fiddled with some of these things that I had dragged outside

to make this

for the 5th challenge that Cheryl set, 5. create a LO using song lyrics as title
From the moment I saw this photo this song was in my head so I was grateful of the prompt to create :)

I dyed another butterfly with Glimmer Mist, as I showed here

The yellow under this is from a paper bag, from the chemist, that one lot of Elizabeth’s medicine came in

Yep grateful for the prompt to create :)
Wondered about adding some journaling
But have left it like this for now :)

As promised yesterday, the rundown on how I put together the mini album I made for Love Scrappin’
One of the things I loved about making this mini was that it didn’t use lots of pattern paper
I started with a 6”x12” piece and only used about half of this
For this mini I used 5 coasters and 4 photos
If you don’t have coasters you could use thin cardboard, but not cardstock as it will bend, and cut it into circles, these coasters have a diameter of about 2.75”

Starting with one of the coasters, put adhesive, in my case double sided tape, onto one side of the coaster

as you can see I didn’t cover all the coaster with tape, it’s not overly necessary because the edges become more sealed later with the paint

I then cut around the coaster, leaving just a little paper over the edge, and DON’T throw out the scraps, I used them later

Take one of the coasters and cover the reverse side, this will be your cover coaster, the other coasters just cover one side with pattern paper and leave the other side for the photo

Take one of your photos, I used a 2.50”x3.25” size photo, and make sure you will still see the parts of the photo that you want once it has been cut, if not then you will need to change the photo to one that will fit onto the area

add adhesive to the uncovered side of the coaster

and then add and cut the photo, again making sure you don’t cut right to the edge of the coaster but leave just a little around the outside, this will be taken off later :)

Then using the scraps, fill in gaps from the photo to the edge of the coaster, I place the straight cut side of the scraps against the photo so there was less cutting

then using a emery board, Dave got me this one for free from a toy shop (meant for model making), or sand paper run around the coaster and sand back the paper to the coaster edge

Now it’s time to get messy
Place some paint on your finger and run it around the edge of the coaster
This is the time you can fill in any gaps that you might have, along the edge of your photo etc
You don’t have to use your finger, if you don’t like messy like me, you can use a foam brush, paint brush or whatever else works for you :)

Once you have done this with all the coasters, take the cover coaster and punch a hole where you would like the keychain to be attached
This then becomes your ‘template’
Use this coaster to see where the hole should go on your photo coasters, so that you don’t punch a hole through someone's head and each hole lines up with the others

I then used a strip of Kaiser Pearls
These come as a straight line, I took small sections of the line and gently adhered them onto the cover coaster to make a circle border

Putting it all together, the title, the key chain and some random coordinating ribbons

I then used the packaging, stitched 2 lengths of ribbon onto some scrap cardstock, added the title and taped it onto the top of the container

Easy, effective and makes an affordable gift :)



Hope that was helpful and inspires you to create

Will leave you with 2 more photos that made my LOVE list today :)

Can you see the bubble in this one, couldn’t have timed it better lol

Thanks for visiting :)

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